Pipe And Stem

National Museum of Natural History

E395293-0

From card: "Gift of James Corston, 1932, a white man of this Indian area. Grey steatite pipe bowl in form of a hatchet with a few excised line decorations, and attached by a string of 5 strands of beads from a hole in its base to the middle of the solidly beaded wooden stem. Green, white and red beads are a modern innovation."


  • Type of Item pipe
  • Culture Montagnais, Eastmain, Cree

  • Field Collector Rev. John M. Cooper
  • Received from Catholic University Of America

  • Made in Quebec
  • Collected in Quebec

  • Acquisition Date on July 6, 1956

  • Accession Number 211312